Stephen Crowhurst

The Sadamune Blades - A Trilogy Stephen Crowhurst

SWORDS OF FATE continues the story of Aki Hiroda and Captain Jan de Jager in this compelling final installment of The Sadamune Blades Trilogy. Follow the Hiroda family and their descendants across three-hundred years from Edo era Japan to World War Two, to the present day. The outlawed Hiroda's fight off government soldiers sent to Hirado to capture them, then travel to Kyoto during the great famine to find their daughter, Aka. After a chance meeting with a former government official, they change their name to his and embark on a mercantile adventure to become one of Japan's foremost traders in Japanese swords. A love affair gone wrong ignites a vendetta that pursues the family, generation after generation. All the while, the family, now called, Sakai, continue to grow and prosper. Female descendants linked by blood to Aki Hiroda are sworn to become shadow warriors and protect the family sword, The Soul Taker. During World War Two, Captain Keisuke Sakai carries The Soul Taker into battle, losing it to a vicious POW camp commander in the Philippines. After the war, the remaining direct descendant is sworn to find and repatriate the family heirloom. In 2002, The Soul Taker surfaces at a sword auction in London. The last descendant, Yasuko Sakai, a sword appraiser, and assassin, is obligated to find the blade. Standing in her way is a timeworn vendetta, a crime boss, a devious sword collector, and a crooked cop. Any one of them would kill to own the Sadamune blade, including the sword appraiser.